[Above: Colorado wall originally enhanced with
aluminum powder on location but here enhanced with white in Photoshop to reveal
shapes. 37-44'58.91"N 103-28'48.96"W]

In the last part of the 20th century, a handful of
archaeologists discovered a collection of symbols carved in stone as petroglyphs
that appeared to be writing. Initial dating of these symbols showed that they
were made over an extended period time, beginning around 1700 BC, and located on
as many as five continents.

This unique collection of symbols was first examined
in the Negev desert of Israel by Dr. James Harris, a brilliant archaeologist
from Brigham Young University. He identified the symbols as an alphabet in the
proto-Canaanite language which he successfully translated by using old-Hebrew
phonetic sounds.

The earliest examples of this writing were first
described as graffiti left by workers of a turquoise mine. Later, excellent
examples were found in a mining site that collapsed and remained intact from
around 1500 BC, established by carbon-14 dating of wooden beams used to support
the tunnels. This discovery was called "Old Negev" by Harris because of its
location in the Israeli desert.

In the late 1990's, William McGlone, an amateur archaeologist and retired space
engineer, discovered the same collection of symbols carved in heavily patinated
stones surrounding the Southeast Colorado town of La Junta Dating of the patina
corresponded to the same era as the writing found in Harkarkom in Israel.
McGlone documented the locations of this writing before his untimely death in
1998. Prior to this, he gave many of his
maps and notes to Gary Vey,
editor of Viewzone. Vey was able, with the help of Dr. Harris, to successfully
translate many of these old petroglyphs and developed a computer program to do
this in the field.

In 1999, Viewzone visited and photographed the
petroglyphs in Colorado and posted them on the internet for comments. [right:
Original image from Colorado enhanced to show details. 37-38'12.59"N
103-35'12.88"W.]

Within a few years, images of similar petroglyphs
were sent to Vey by archaeologists and historians from many global locations.
This included a huge, refined collection of writing from the Republic of Yemen,
at the site of the newly discovered palace of the Queen of Sheba. Vey was
immediately invited to visit the museums and archaeological sites in Yemen and
photographed as well as translated many of the older stone and bronze artifacts.

The writing in Colorado and Yemen spoke of some
event, possibly related to the Sun, which was prophesied to change human
civilization. Subsequent translations of sites in Oklahoma, Australia and South
America have added more details about this future event; however, the present
report is meant to describe and illustrate this ancient writing system, which we
are calling "first tongue." It is similar to proto-Canaanite but, because it
seems to pre-date the Canaanites, the use of "First Tongue" is preferred.

In the years following the Yemen Expedition, in 2001,
Vey has worked closely with historian and linguist, John McGovern, who resides
in Australia. McGovern has collected examples of FT from around the globe and
has been able to reconstruct the esoteric, religious and cultural systems that
motivated these early authors. He describes a highly developed understanding of
deity and the cosmos that inspired these ancient texts.

Update: Some recent translations using
variations of the Sabaean text as it appears on some stones in the Yemen Museum
have been attempted and are published for comments. In these examples, we
attempt to follow the protocol used by the University of Calgary -- making
vertical lines correspond to word breaks (spaces) and assigning the "lamed"
sound to what we have previously assigned to the "gimmel." Suprisingly, the
result of the new translations are consistent with the historical narrative, in
general, and even seem to add some details not recorded before.

Note: I have received many inquiries about
this discovery. While we continue to receive photographic material from new
finds in Yemen, we have decided to refrain from posting these. Why? Inevitably
some traditional archaeologists will attempt to argue about the methods of the
translation or of the possibility of the scripts being found in various
geographic areas. In our younger years we would have debated these points and
adhered to the traditional paradigm of journal publication etc. Instead, since
the translations are revealing important prophetic information we have decided
to focus all of our efforts to this task. Our goal is not academic or to achieve
fame. In actuality, there is no time for that.

A translation program in JavaScript, which will run
on any browser, has been provided to validate our work. Thanks for your kind
words and interest.